Sentence examples for large scale clash from inspiring English sources

A mission by reconnaissance Phantoms over northern Syria on September 13 , 1973 triggered a large scale clash between the two air forces, resulting in the downing of 13 Syrian MiGs (one at the hands of 69 Squadron's Amnon Arad) and the loss of a single Israeli Mirage III.

In large scale-clashes Galland claimed his 33rd air victory over a Hurricane while leading JG 26.

I don't think that large-scale clash is going to happen.

Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister, has said that a large-scale clash is inevitable.

The one moment when this might have happened was the only large-scale clash of battleships, the Battle of Jutland.

Anticipated large-scale clashes in Tripoli failed to materialise as regime security pro-Gaddafi forces moved swiftly to break up protests begun after Friday prayers in the mainly anti-Gaddafi Tajoura district.

The stunning offensive of recent days led by Mr Hifter – a former anti-Gaddafi activist who spent years in exile in Virginia – has prompted militias to choose sides, in what could be a prelude to large-scale clashes.

The Hòa Hảo initially engaged in large-scale clashes with the Việt Minh in 1945, but by mid-1946 two two groups had agreed to stop fighting each other and fight the French instead.

Chinese military planners believe that they would only launch a cyberattack on U.S. critical infrastructure in the event of an imminent large scale military clash with the United States over Taiwan.

Its last large-scale military clash was a failed invasion of Vietnam in 1979.

With the exception of periodic, localized peasant uprisings, the Shimabara Rebellion was the last large-scale armed clash in Japan until the 1860s.